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17.10 Elsewhere, Leyton Orient top League One after thrashing Carlisle 5-1 away from home, with Wolves' match at Preston ending goalless. And guess who is top of League Two? Newport County. Back in the Football League after 25 years and they have thumped Accrington Stanley 4-1. There are all sorts of stories from today. Full match reports from some of the games are appearing on the Telegraph Sport website as I type so head on over to the main page for those. Thanks for joining me and enjoy your evening. Cheerio.

17.05 What happened there then? Well Wigan had the perfect start to their hopes of bouncing back to the top flight with 10-man Barnsley enduring a nightmare afternoon. QPR and Reading, the other relegated sides, also picked up three points, while Yeovil grabbed a late winner to sink Millwall. Tom Ince scored the third to wrap things up for Blackpool, with Leeds also left it late to beat Brighton.

17.00 FULL TIME That's it. It's all over. The first full day of fixtures is done.

GOAL! Leeds 2-1 Brighton The crowd have gone mental and Luke Murphy is the hero on his debut! The former Crewe captain pops up from close range in the last minute of injury time and gives Leeds victory.

GOAL! Millwall 0-1 Yeovil It's their first ever game in the Championship and Yeovil have the lead two minutes from the final whistle. The ball is rolled Ed Upson on the edge of the box. His shot squirts through a massive bundle of players and rolls into the bottom corner!

16.45 Coventry were 2-0 down but Franck Moussa has scored twice in the second half to bring things level. A bit of hope for a club full of misery? Noooooo. Crawley have grabbed another one to make it 3-2! What a game.

16.43 I know I've mentioned Joey Barton quite a bit today but I shall stop after this. The home fans have just given him a standing ovation as he is taken off.

GOAL! Barnsley 0-3 Wigan Game over at Oakwell. Barnsley are down to 10 men and now they are three goals behind courtesy of Leon Barnett who only joined Owen Coyle's side two days ago from Norwich.

16.39 Is this a foul? The referee seems to think not with Jaques Maghoma shown a yellow card for diving. Which is fortunate for Joey Barton because he had already been booked...

GOAL! Reading 2-1 Ipswich The hosts have taken the lead! Danny Guthrie picks the ball up 25 yards out and leathers it hard into the Ipswich net. Which means Wigan, QPR and Reading fill the top three spots in the Championship. Who says relegated sides don't go straight back up?

16.32 Amazing scenes at Rodney Parade where Newport County have gone 4-0 up against Accrington Stanley. In fact the visitors have just pulled a goal back but it won't mean much. The dream start in League Two for the home side.

16.29RED CARD! Oh dear me. Dale Jennings has spent the last couple of years at Bayern Munich before Barnsley brought him back to England last month. Come on then son, show us what you've got. Ah... Jennings comes off the bench, trips over the ball with his first touch and then sees red after a shin-high challenge a minute later.

16.25 Portsmouth are already 1-2 down at home to Oxford and now they have lost their captain with Johnny Ertl sent off for after leading with his elbow. Oh and just as I write that, in goes a third for the visitors. What a terrible start to Portsmouth's League Two campaign.

16.20 The first yellow card of the afternoon has been shown at Loftus Road. Guess who it's gone to. Go on guess. Ok I'll tell you. Joey Barton. And he fully deserved it for a wild late swipe.

GOAL! Barnsley 0-2 Wigan The visitors have been dominating all afternoon and now Grant Holt gets his Wigan career off to the perfect start by flicking Emmerson Boyce's shot into the net.

16.15 Yeovil have improved as their first ever game in the Championship has gone on and they have just had the best chance of the game courtesy of Darren Seaborn whose header was scrambled off the goalline. Still goalless at The Den.

16.12 Chris Kirkland deserves some sort of medal for his efforts today. This time the Sheffield Wednesday keeper gets the better of Junior Hoilett in a one-on-one after Joey Barton's throughball. QPR could be clear by now if not for Kirkland's performance.

16.08 The action has begun for the second period around the country. His side are ahead but Harry Redknapp isn't jumping for joy... because he is on crutches. Leg operation apparently. Or is it a result of keeping Joey Barton and Karl Henry apart?

15.55 The half time whistles have gone around all of the Championship grounds and almost everywhere else around the country. Let's take a breather. If the season was only 45 minutes long, QPR would be Championship winners, Crawley would claim the League One title and Mansfield would be dropping straight back out of the Football League. Alas it lasts slightly more than 45 minutes so join me again for the second halves of the season openers.

15.51 There is often a thin line between pleasure and pain. Jamie Cureton has decided to put that to the test by putting Cheltenham ahead against Burton, while dislocating his shoulder in the process. He's off to hospital. I think pain won out there.

GOAL! Reading 1-1 Ipswich And another late goal, this time at the Madejski Stadium where Adam Le Fondre has bundled in Garath McCleary's cross.

15.48 Blimey a bit of flurry of goals at the end of this first half. I can tell you that Chris Zebroski has extended Newport County's lead to 2-0, while Mansfield are now two goals down at Scunthorpe. A mixed bag for the Football League new boys.

GOAL! QPR 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday Well this is some turnaround isn't it. Chris Kirkland performs heroics again to keep out Joey Barton's far-post header but he is helpless to prevent Andy Johnson from volleying in the rebound.

GOAL! QPR 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday I said Sheffield Wednesday were up against it and this time Junior Hoilett's shot is turned in by Nedum Onuoha for his first QPR goal.

GOAL! Barnsley 0-1 Wigan It's Owen Coyle's first league goal as Wigan manager. Ben Watson brings the ball down 30 yards out, no one shuts him down so he simply strolls forward a few yards and hits the ball into the bottom corner.

15.41 Chris Kirkland is the man keeping Sheffield Wednesday ahead at Loftus Road with the visitors' keeper this time pulling off a blinder to stop Bobby Zamora's effort.

15.39 Blackpool have taken the lead against Doncaster. Reckon they're happy?

15.34 I mentioned that the Coventry fans have been through the mill over the past 24 hours and about 30 or 40 of them have decided to make their opinion heard by coming onto the pitch at Crawley. Play was halted while police restored order and the match has now resumed after a five-minute break. It's not been pretty in the boardroom recently and Coventry's unease has continued in the season opener where they are already 2-0 down.

15.31 Reading are many people's fancy to bounce straight back to the Premier League next season but they have done absolutely nothing since going behind to Jay Tabb's early strike. Nigel Adkins' side are yet to have a shot on target.

GOAL! Scunthorpe 1-0 Mansfield Town Newport are up and running but fellow Football League returnees Mansfield haven't begun quite so well. Matt Sparrow is the man to do the damage.

GOAL! Newport County 1-0 Accrington Stanley They were out of the Football League for 25 years but Newport have had to wait just 24 minutes to take the lead on their return. Harry Worley fires into the bottom corner and Newport are ahead.

GOAL! Leeds 1-1 Brighton There's the equaliser from Ross McCormack who fires low into the net after a Luke Varney heads a cross in his direction.

15.24 There has been a long delay at Middlesbrough where Leicester defender Zak Whitbread has left the field strapped to a stretcher with an oxygen mask. Let's hope he is alright.

GOAL! QPR 0-1 Sheffield Wednesday Oh no Harry. QPR didn't win in their first 16 league matches last season and they will be desperate not to begin in the same manner this time around. But it doesn't look great. He is six foot six inches tall and Atdhe Nuhiu is causing all sorts of problems for the QPR defence. This time he finds the back of the net and it's 1-0 to the visitors.

GOAL! Reading 0-1 Ipswich The ball is played all the way across the box to the far post where Jay Tabb sees his first effort saved but makes no mistake with the second.

GOAL! Leeds 0-1 Brighton Andrea Orlandi plays in Jose Ulloa, who drives the ball past Paddy Kenny and that's the lead for the visitors.

15.15 I tell thee what, the Alexandra Stadium faithful haven't had long to wait to be entertained in the 2013/14 season. We've only just begun and thre have been three goals already with Crewe 2-1 up against Rotherham.

15.13 It's all QPR at Loftus Road where Andy Johnson has just seen his shot deflected inches wide of the Sheffield Wednesday post. Moments later he has another crack at goal but Chris Kirkland saves well. Harry Redknapp's side knocking hard.

15.11 How are Wolves faring in League One? They've brought a huge travelling support but Lee Holmes is the man running the show for Preston at the moment. It's goalless.

15.09 Yeovil are in the Championship for the first time in their history but it is Millwall pressing hardest at the Den in the opening stages.

GOAL! Crewe 1-0 Rotherham We have a goal!!! I won't be telling you about every single one today but this is the first and I'm excited. Crewe new boy Anthony Grant is the man to put his side ahead.

15.04 And the winners are... 18,000 Portsmouth fans who have piled into Fratton Park today and set a new League Two attendance record.

15.00 Ready, steady, go.

14.54 I failed to mention Coventry when I was briefly highlighting some of today's big stories. It's been a fairly crazy 24 hours for their fans with news that one of the companies that make up the club is facing liquidation. As a result they are starting the new season 10 points behind everyone else having been docked points. It's probably a relief to get back to action at Crawley today.

14.46 Two months ago Joey "Joseph" Barton tweeted this:

<noframe>Twitter: Joseph Barton - I'll just re-iterate for a lot of the buffoons tweeting me. I WILL NOT BE PLAYING IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP NEXT SEASON. Hope that clears that up!</noframe>

14.38 Remember this guy? He cost Real Madrid more than £12million and featured against the likes of AC Milan and Roma in the Champions League. Today Royston Drenthe takes on David McGoldrick, Jay Tabb and the rest of the Ipswich clan having joined Reading last month. Welcome to the Championship Royston, this is "real football".

14.25 "What interesting matches are happening today," I hear you ask. Well all three of last season's Premier League relegated sides are in action with QPR hosting Sheffield Wednesday, Wigan at Barnsley and Reading taking on Ipswich. Just two seasons ago, Wolves were playing in the top flight and they will be desperate to end their freefall as they start their League One campaign at Preston today. As we delve lower down, Newport and Mansfield will both be hoping they can stay back where they belong on their return to the Football League, while Portsmouth find themselves in League Two for the first time.

Meanwhile, this is the sort of insight I look forward to from managers throughout the season:

<noframe>Twitter: Reading FC - Boss Nigel Adkins has said many times in pre-season that over the season we'll need the full squad and every single player will be important</noframe>

14.09 I should probably mention the fact that there was an early kick-off in the Championship today with Burnley welcoming Bolton. I won't lie: I've been watching the cricket instead so can't offer a great deal of insight other than to tell you that a Wheater own-goal gave Burnley the lead before Pratley hit back for the visitors. And that was how it ended. Which means Bolton are top of the league.

14.02 It's time for the men to separate themselves from the boys. The moment is upon us for people to stand up and be counted. Our heroes must step up to the plate and show they want it more than the opposition because there are simply no easy games at Championship/League One/League Two/Scunthorpe & District Sunday League Division Seven level.

You've missed it haven't you? Believe it or not there is more to "The Beautiful Game" than the never-ending Gareth Bale, Wayne Rooney and Luis Suarez transfer sagas. For the rest of this blog there shall be no talk of ludicrous amounts of money or Champions League football.

In just under an hour's time, 66 Football League sides will begin the heartbreak, anguish, joy and a hell of a lot of another nonsense that comes with the 2013/14 season. Thanks for joining me. Let it all begin.